The no-nonsense guide to fair trade / David Ransom.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Ransom, David, 1946-

Series:

• No-nonsense guides (Oxford, England).
• No-nonsense guides

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• International trade.
• Competition, Unfair.

Physical Description:

143 pages : illustrations, maps ; 18 cm.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : New Internationalist Publications ; London ; New York : Verso, [2001]

Summary:

• World Trade was once the exclusive preserve of big business, run by transnational corporations more powerful than governments. Now the 'free' trade they favor is the focus of public concern everywhere -- globalization and the World Trade Organization have seen to that.
• But what's the alternative? The No-Nonsense Guide to Fair Trade gives you a good idea. Dispensing with the marketing spin of orthodox economics, it tells the human story behind the things we consume. In the divide between consumers and producers, rich and poor, North and South, it discovers positive options that are already available on supermarket shelves.
• The threads of a complex issue are pulled together into a summary of key concepts and factual evidence -- a lively, digestible and radical guide for the general reader as well as campaigners and specialists in development, globalization and international affairs.

Contents:

• 1 Mexico: a cautionary tale 27
• 2 Coffee in Peru: life on the edge 36
• 3 Cocoa in Ghana: a way of life 56
• 4 Bananas in Guatemala and the Caribbean: seeking perfection 70
• 5 Blue jeans: beaten by the brand 96
• 6 Buying it: fair trade in the North 108
• Conclusion: an infant among giants 122.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1859843344

OCLC:

47041231